A pivotal moment
Subtitle: population, justice, and the environmental challenge
By: edited by Laurie Mazur.
Contributors: Mazur, Laurie Ann.
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9781597266611; 9781597266628
Subjects: Population -- Environmental aspects; Social justice; Sustainable development
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Timothy E. Wirth; title: Introduction  -- Laurie Mazur; title: Human population grows up  -- Joel E. Cohen; title: The largest generation comes of age  -- Martha Farnsworth Riche; title: People on the move : population, migration, and the environment  -- Susan Gibbs; title: The urban millennium  -- United Nations Population Fund; title: Climate change and population growth  -- Brian C. O'Neill; title: Fair weather, lasting world  -- Robert Engelman; title: Adapting to climate change : the role of reproductive health  -- Malea Hoepf Young ... [et al.]; title: Population growth, ecosystem services, and human well-being  -- Lynne Gaffikin; title: Numbers matter : human population as a dynamic factor in environmental degradation  -- John Harte; title: Environmental justice in an urbanizing world  -- Gordon McGranahan; title: The new economics of population change  -- Rachel Nugent; title: Food : will there be enough?  -- Lester R. Brown; title: Understanding the global food crisis : Malthusian nightmare or free-trade fiasco?  -- Walden Bello; title: How much is left? an overview of the water crisis  -- Eleanor Sterling and Erin Vintinner; title: The biggest footprint : population and consumption in the United States  -- Vicky Markham; title: Population growth, reproductive health, and the future of Africa  -- Fred T. Sai; title: Cancún : paradise lost  -- Adriana Varillas; title: The flip side : how the environment impacts our reproductive health  -- Charlotte Brody and Julia Varshavsky; title: Cairo : the unfinished revolution  -- Carmen Barroso and Steven W. Sinding; title: The new population challenge  -- Judith Bruce and John Bongaarts; title: Rethinking U.S. population policy  -- Suzanne Petroni; title: Going to extremes : population politics and reproductive rights in Peru  -- Susana Chávez Alvarado with Jacqueline Nolley Echegaray; title: Mobilizing constituencies : achieving sexual reproductive health and rights for all  -- Adrienne Germain; title: Women at the center  -- Ellen Chesler; title: Taking stock : linking population, health, and the environment  -- Roger-Mark De Souza; title: From crisis to sustainability  -- James Gustave Speth; title: Reproductive rights are human rights  -- Jacqueline Nolley Echegaray and Shira Saperstein; title: Over-breeding and the population bomb : the reemergence of nativism and population control in anti-immigration policies  -- Priscilla Huang; title: Christian perspectives on population issues  -- James B. Martin-Schramm; title: Ecomorality : toward an ethic of sustainability  -- Ursula Goodenough; title: Reconciling differences : population, reproductive rights, and the environment  -- Frances Kissling; title: Afterword : work for justice? -- Laurie Mazur and Shira Saperstein.